It's always in somebody's best interest to promote enemies real or imagined. | | | | Hayley Williams of Paramore performs at BBC Radio 1's Big weekend 2013 in Ireland.
(Ollie Millington/WireImage/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “It's always in somebody's best interest to promote enemies real or imagined.”
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| | rantnrave:// Big, belated congratulations to my friend DARA KHOSROWSHAHI on being named CEO of UBER. He's super smart. We know this. But those who know him also know he's a good person. Great instincts on business, people and corporate soul. Fantastic choice from my perspective. The biggest mistake corporate boards make in these situations is picking for "big name" recognition (see YAHOO). "DK" is known, but not like JEFF IMMELT or MEG WHITMAN. But is by far the superior choice. It's a big job with big issues... Some great new REDEF SETS today... They're the first to come and the last to leave, workin' for that minimum wage. And probably no health insurance. For Labor Day, we honor music's hardest working and most undersung labor force. MusicSET: "We Are the Road Crew"... Scent is an instinctive part of life, tied to memory and personal expression. Creating fragrance is a global, multi-billion dollar industry with deep ties to agriculture and chemistry. Where is the culture of fragrance going, and where has it been? FashionSET: "The Art and Science of Scent"... No one wields more power on a college campus than head football coaches. They are recruiters, Xs-and-Os schemers, and fundraisers. While players come and go, they remain as the face of the program and the school. SportsSET: "Giants on the College Football Sidelines"... Been saying it for years! If you have a television and don't want everything looking like a '70s porn (so I hear), read this now... As an uncle I'm very uncomfortable at school pickup. I don't know the rules and some of the mommies are intimidating... Happy Birthday to ANDY SCHUON, RYAN SARVER, ADAM BAUER, and FRANK ADDANTE. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | USA TODAY |
| Roughly one in five American adults suffer from mental illnesses. Athletes might be more at risk. Here, eight of them tell their authentic stories. | | |
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 | Nieman Journalism Lab |
| "What we want to do is create the best possible place to support great content. How does the best media in the world work? In almost every case, the best media is supported by those who consume it." | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| The 2007 teen comedy--cowritten by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and starring then-breakouts Jonah Hill, Emma Stone, and Michael Cera--still resonates as an extremely funny movie that’s honest about male friendship. Ten years later, the cast and crew explain how it all came together. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| How Google Brain transformed YouTube, | | |
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 | strategy+business |
| A long-wave theory of technological and economic change suggests the financial malaise that began in 2007 may be about to end. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Billy McFarland’s “Magnises” was supposed to be a super-exclusive passport to hip events. Then the Fyre Festival happened. | | |
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 | The Intercept |
| Yousef al-Otaiba, the UAE's influential ambassador to Washington, led a hard-partying life that eventually collided with his professional world. | | |
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 | Mental Floss |
| By his death at 70 in 1857, Holman had walked, climbed, ridden, hiked, and sailed a total distance equal to traveling to the moon. So why haven't you heard of him? | | |
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 | recode |
| Oath, the Verizon subsidiary that Yahoo and AOL merged into, will find an indirect way to get ad dollars. | | |
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 | Vox |
| Fans look back at the mystery that shaped 20 years of fandom, from the early internet through today. | | |
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 | SlideShare |
| China vs. US internet by the numbers, China market size, top China startup cities, venture capital, smartphone landscape, major Chinese internet trends including messaging, mobile payment, Cryptocurrency, shopping, bike sharing, live streaming. gaming, eSport, artificial intelligence and education. This guide is intended to give you basic information about Chinese internet landscape. | | |
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 | SPIN |
| Over a few months, one tiny Atlanta-based company made $67,000 booking Migos and Rae Sremmurd concerts across the country that never happened. Their business model is surprisingly common in the live rap music industry. | | |
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 | Techdirt |
| I'm going to try to do something that's generally not recommended on the internet: I'm going to try to discuss a complicated issue that has many nuances and gray areas. That often fails, because all too often people online immediately leap to black or white positions, because it's easy to miss the nuance when arguing about an emotionally potent issue. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Lifelike sex dolls have been available for years -- but an AI head attachment could finally give lonely singles the companionship they need. | | |
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 | Musonomics |
| AM/FM radio has been a resilient medium in the Internet era, but that resilience is weakening. While it was able to survive and adapt to the introduction of television, new digital services are beginning to change the way people listen to music, endangering radio once again. | | |
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 | New Republic |
| The president is taking conservative media to its evolutionary endpoint. Is there any way to stop him? | | |
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 | McKinsey & Company |
| Latecomers can succeed at digitization if they take these five steps. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| Stefan Simchowitz, who has been described as the “art world’s patron Satan,” discusses the world’s strangest and most mercurial market on the latest episode of Inside the Hive. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| A Beltway scandal that calls into question the independence of a Google-backed think tank strengthens the argument that tech has too much money. | | |
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 | Wired |
| For the past five years, I've turned off social media in August. This year was different. | | |
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 | Complex |
| Kendrick Lamar has been wearing the Nike Cortez lately, and the sneaker's connection to Los Angeles and its streets is undeniable. Here's how it happened. | | |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| Blockchain could be used to make every SKU produced by every brand accessible to any retailer, editor or consumer, feeding new digital tools that would be massively democratising for the curation of fashion, argues Charles Beckwith. | | |
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 | Pajiba |
| Set photos from Josie Rourke's upcoming film, "Mary Queen of Scots," made their way to Twitter this week, revealing Margot Robbie in costume for the role of Queen Elizabeth I. It’s a pretty striking resemblance, or at least as close as we can imagine given the sheer glut of performers who have played the role and the little evidence we have of Elizabeth’s appearance. | | |
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